To make America’s economy and defense more secure, the Administration has released “A Federal Strategy to Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals.” Among other roles, these minerals are vital to renewable energy infrastructure like solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries.

USGS personnel on the deck of the R/V Hugh R. Sharp during retrieval of seismic airguns. The streamer that receives the seismic signals generated by the airguns is towed behind the ship and is here shown

One charge of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Energy Resources Science Center is conducting field work tobetter understand the distribution of hydrocarbon source rocks as input to USGS oil and gasassessments. This 2015 image is a view to the south-southeast of rocks exposed along an unnameddraw near Antonio Creek, Terrell County, Texas. The Buda Limestone is

Did you know there are more than 57,000 wind turbines in the United States? In this video, we'll show you how you can get to know each and every one of them with our U.S. Wind Turbine Database and viewer, which we've assembled in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the American Wind Energy Association.

USGS researchers drill a research well located on the south side of U.S. 90, 7.1 miles east of Brackettville, Texas. This core was drilled by USGS during field work for an oil and gas assessment for the Eagle Ford of the Gulf Coast Basins. Cores like these provide information on the various rock layers, such as their make-up, their age, etc. The borehole, core, and logging